A sleepy town was plagued by sordid letters... I solved the mystery

For two decades, residents of Circleville, , were tormented by hundreds of vile and threatening letters from a mystery writer, who seemingly knew all about their affairs, scams and other dirty secrets.

Many of them focused on Mary Gillispie, a school bus driver, and her alleged affair with superintendent Gordon Massie. In 1983, things came to a head when a booby trap was laid on Gillispie's bus route, apparently aimed at harming her.

But even after one of Gillispie's relatives, Paul Freshour, was jailed for setting the deathtrap, the odious letters kept coming. It raised doubts about his guilt and fueled speculation about any sidekicks and other writers.

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